'Legion’s' Noah Hawley is Making a Doctor Doom Film

Trending News: Whoa Hey, The 'Legion' People Are Making A Doctor Doom Movie

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Legion creator Noah Hawley has announced he’s working on a Doctor Doom film.

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Has there been a better television series this year than Legion? FX’s recreation of the stories of Marvel’s David Haller was imaginative, funny and frequently terrifying. No wonder the show’s Thursday Comic-Con panel was one of the highlights of the event.

Still, Legion creator and showrunner Noah Hawley managed to finish things on an almighty high when he announced at the end of the panel that he was developing a new film for Fox that he didn’t want to reveal too much about. “I’ll just say two words,” Variety reports. “The first one is Doctor and the next one is Doom.”

Doctor Doom is best known as the arch nemesis of the Fantastic Four — the scientific genius and sorcerer recognisable by his iron mask and green cloak — but over the years he’s come to represent much, much more in the Marvel universe. Vulture produced a story last month in which they named Doom the greatest super villain of all time. It was hard to argue with them.

There’s not much more about what’s in store here, but it definitely looks like the film will rotate around Doctor Victor von Doom rather than be another Fantastic Four effort which, let’s be honest, haven’t been great in recent years.

If so, it would be a massive step up for Hawley. But then he nailed Legion with great aplomb, and has also created a cult phenomenon out of the Fargo TV series. Doom is likely in good hands.

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Doctor Doom was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in 1962 in issue five of the first volume of Fantastic Four.